Another great glass beauty..

Found another yesterday while browsing through a local pen stall. Last piece and I gotta have it. Old school English color. Its a big one and nicely weighted. Has a nice balance on use.

Glass Dip Pens.. The Beauty of Writing

Ok.. I'v been looking for glass dip pens for the longest time. It seems for years no one locally has brought them in. Many times I've went online, added stuff to carts and not buy. Its usually either they are too bloody expensive or shipping is atrocious. Maybe I always choose the elaborate designs.. haha.

So I stumbled upon a gift store yesterday. To my surprise, glass pens. All I ave in my mind was "I gotta have these!", even though I had already bought a set of calligraphy dip nips just a while ago in another store. 

I would say the are not as pretty as the ones I've seen online but still nice. It's a start for my collection for sure. 

I have not tried them out yet. One day.. one day.. 

As one can see, I'm missing a proper ink well.. ha. Still in the hunt for a nice looking one. 

                                                                          

My attemps to fix a Fountain pen.. stripping involved!

:P.. this pen works when it starts to write well no doubt. But thats when it starts to. Most of the time, I got to kick start it by scribbling with it for a very short while. It doesn't happen on my The Long March Jinhao fountain pen.
My attemp is to see what may have clogged the ink flow channel which might be the reason ink doesn't flow out as fast for immediate use.
Ok, I must admit, to strip a this pen is really fun.. or to strip any stationary infact. Hehe.. years back, I love to prank my classmates by stripping every single stationary in their pencilbox and mix them up. Its fun to see their faces when they open up the box and their attempts to puzzle everything back ;D.
Ok.. now for the dismatled pictures..



First is this reed thingy. Usually on other pens, its not detachable. They should be found as a whole with the feed and usually thicker.

There is a tiny slid on the reed (can't see it well because phone camera don't have macro).. This acts like a "straw" to channel the ink from the convertor to the feed.. I found out that the slid is not through. One of the end is blocked. Not sure if its meant to be this way but if it through, it should be better. Well anyway, my penknife is out and slid it all the way. Now its through, end to end.

Next is the feed. I saw a block just before the tip of it (Red circle). On this picture, I have already cleared it with a penknife.

It should make sense that the ink channel on the feed gradually slopes up and ends at the tip.. not just before (around red circle) and valley in again and then end at tip.
I may be wrong in clearing that path.. hehe. I'm just an amateur. We'll see.

My pen breathes.. hmm

Recently got this.. seems to be breathing.. I get water dew inside the cap almost everyday :? .



Maybe its a good thing.. Its an excellent pen though.. Its a Sailor 1911 btw.